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Saturday Night Live recently parodied Jordan Peele’s Us with a hilarious Discover Card skit, and it explores the creepy side of identity theft.

The SNL skit, which debuted on Saturday, March 30, has received more than 200,000 views on YouTube. According to its description, the skit teases Discover Card’s “very relatable customer service” and willingness to investigate “sketchy” purchases. Like the characters in Us, the couple in the skit also experiences eerie doppelgangers who look like them, except, these nightmarish-looking twins are part of Discover Card’s live customer service team.

“Honey, I just got an alert,” SNL’s Ego Nwodim said in the skit. “There’s some weird charges on the Discover Card.”

And, this thief didn’t just buy a couch or plane tickets: There were charges for red jumpsuits, motorcycle gloves, giant scissors, and hundreds of fluffy rabbits. So Nwodim places a call to remedy the Discover Card situation, which is of course answered by her nightmarish doppelganger who agrees to help her out. Even though Nwodim’s character has no idea what’s happening, the audience is cringing because the eerie ad resembles Us.

“That’s so random,” the creepy doppelganger replied. “I say random all the time.”

“Are you me?” Nwodim’s character said in response to the statement. (All the “chills” here.)

You would think Nwodim’s character would just end the strange call and move on, but things get a bit more bizarre from there. You’ll have to watch the rest of the skit to find out what Discover Card and its freaky doppelgangers have in store for Nwodim and her skit husband, Kenan Thompson.